{"product_id":"iceland-s-bell-9781400034253","title":"Iceland's Bell","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: At the close of the 17th century, Iceland is an oppressed Danish colony, suffering under extreme poverty, famine, and plague. A farmer and accused cord-thief named Jon Hreggvidsson makes a bawdy joke about the Danish king and soon after finds himself a fugitive charged with the murder of the king’s hangman.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the years that follow, the hapless but resilient rogue Hreggvidsson becomes a   pawn entangled in political and personal conflicts playing out on a far grander scale.   Chief among these is the star-crossed love affair between Snaefridur, known as “Iceland’s   Sun,” a beautiful, headstrong young noblewoman, and Arnas Arnaeus, the king’s antiquarian,   an aristocrat whose worldly manner conceals a fierce devotion to his downtrodden   countrymen. As their personal struggle plays itself out on an international stage, Laxness creates a Dickensian canvas of heroism and venality, violence and   tragedy, charged with narrative enchantment on every page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSometimes grim, sometimes uproarious, and always captivating, \u003ci\u003eIceland's Ball\u003c\/i\u003e is at once an updating of the traditional Icelandic saga and a caustic social satire.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62341577965955,"sku":"9781400034253","price":17.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9781400034253.jpg?v=1786150838","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/iceland-s-bell-9781400034253","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}